AGNES NKURUMWA
Agnes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Egerton University, Njoro. She has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Agricultural Extension, and a Master of Science degree in the same field, both obtained from Egerton University in 1995 and 2009 respectively. Her PhD research was done among the Maasai of Narok District, Kenya, where she looked at factors that were affecting the adoption of agro-pastoralism in the community. Course units done at Masters level included; extension programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, developing community leadership, comparative agricultural extension programmes, management of agricultural organizations, among others. Her MSc research was on 'Factors affecting participation of women farmers in agricultural extension programmes. She lectures in a wide range of extension courses including: Principles of agricultural extension; programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and Rural sociology; Agricultural Information Management, and Gender in agriculture and community development. She has also recently ventured into the area of innovations, and is involved in teaching a module on Innovations for Agricultural and Rural Development in the PhD Agriculture and Rural Innovations regional programme. She has successfully supervised five masters students who have already graduated and is currently supervising two PhD and five masters students, also supervises field attachment programmes for undergraduate students. Agnes has wide experience in teaching, research, proposal writing and consultancy. She has published a number of scientific articles as well as presented a number of papers at international conferences.
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